The municipality of the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, in northern Occupied Palestine 1948, declared in a statement a one-day general strike tomorrow to protest the rising violence and killings in Arab communities.
During an emergency session, the municipality discussed ways to address the murders that took place in the city and claimed the lives of three young men.
The strike includes shops, public and private institutions, and schools, with the exception of private education.
The municipality called for a sit-in in front of the Israeli police station on Saturday.
Eight people have been killed in Umm al-Fahm since the beginning of this year.
Palestinians in Israel accuse the police and government of discriminating against them and not doing enough to stop crime in their towns compared to Jewish towns.
Several protests and calls by the Palestinians in Israel, who make up more than 20 percent of the Israeli population, on the government and police to fight the rise in crime in their towns have not yet yielded any significant results with less than a fifth of the crimes be resolved or criminals apprehended.
Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency